Life Is Getting Much Harder for Huawei

A Huawei Technologies logo outside the company's offices in Reading, U.K.

Photographer: Jason Alden/Bloomberg

Life got a lot harder for Huawei this week, and the potential fallout from the U.S.-China tech war substantially more destructive.

Washington’s assault on the Chinese technology giant has been a multi-year campaign. It has included requesting the arrest of Huawei’s chief financial officer, prosecuting the company for racketeering, and lobbying U.S. allies to ban its gear from their telecommunications networks.